Geoffrey Bhengu | |
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Member of the National Assembly | |
In office June 1999 – August 2002 | |
Constituency | KwaZulu-Natal |
Delegate to the National Council of Provinces | |
Assembly Member for KwaZulu-Natal | |
In office May 1994 – June 1999 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Geoffrey Bongumusa Bhengu 25 August 1940 |
Citizenship | South Africa |
Political party | Inkatha Freedom Party |
Geoffrey Bongumusa Bhengu (born 25 August 1940)[1] is a South African politician from KwaZulu-Natal. He represented the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in the national Parliament from May 1994 until August 2002, when moved to the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature.
In South Africa's first post-apartheid elections in 1994, Bhengu was elected to represent the IFP in the Senate (later the National Council of Provinces), serving the KwaZulu-Natal constituency.[2] In the next general election in 1999, he was elected to an IFP seat in the National Assembly, again from the KwaZulu-Natal list.[1]
However, midway through the term, the Mail & Guardian reported that Bhengu was likely to be transferred to the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature, where the IFP hoped to stack its seats with party loyalists in order to minimise the losses of the upcoming floor-crossing window.[3] Bhengu was indeed sworn in to the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature on 13 August 2002.[4] He was re-elected to a full term in the provincial legislature in the 2004 general election.[5]